Paraguay's President-elect Santiago Peña expressed optimism about a strengthened relationship with the United States under President-elect Donald Trump, contrasting his hopes with the perceived mistreatment by the outgoing Biden administration.
Conservative President Santiago Peña of Paraguay expressed hope on Sunday that the relationship between his country and the United States would significantly improve once President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. Peña, speaking on Paraguay an television channel La Tele, asserted that Paraguay had been mistreated by the outgoing Biden administration, stressing that his country had become a symbol in Washington of how to poorly handle the relationship with a U.S. ally.
Peña stated that U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Marc Ostfield damaged the bilateral relationship after the United States imposed sanctions against former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes, who the United States has accused of corruption. Cartes served as president from 2013 to 2018. The sanctions were imposed on Tabacalera del Este, Paraguay’s largest cigarette manufacturer. The company standsCartes, once a majority shareholder of the company, reportedly denied all allegations of corruption and said he no longer owns nor is directly involved in the cigarette manufacturer’s operations. Peña said he was careful to say that Ostfield is damaging the relationship between two brotherly countries, pointing out that he gently asked for the United States to replace the ambassador. While Gabriel Escobar is slated to be the new U.S. ambassador to Paraguay, Ostfield remains the head of the U.S. embassy in Asunción at press time. Meanwhile, a Chinese diplomat, Xu, was seen meeting with pro-China Paraguayan opposition lawmakers, urging them to pressure Paraguay to cut its ties with Taiwan and embrace China instead. Paraguay is the only remaining country in South America that recognizes Taiwan as a sovereign country. It has maintained ties with Taiwan since 1957
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